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Title: Monumental inscriptions, Blantyre, Look up please
Post by: Rustor on Tuesday 08 May 07 14:36 BST (UK)
Hello.
Hoping someone can help with search for Surname - Nairn or Robertson from C1816, do know some deaths occurred  Blantyre, Lanark
 John Robertson 1861,
John Gilbert Robertson 1875,[may have spouse Alice Smith]
Janet Robertson ms Nairn or Nairns.1877.
Need other family -Robert Nairn, d.1869  Elizabeth Nairn spouse [Moyes]?
Robert Nairn and spouse Janet McDonald or Templeton.
Thank you -Jan
Australia :)
Title: Re: Monumental inscriptions, Blantyre, Look up please
Post by: JustinL on Tuesday 15 May 07 21:29 BST (UK)
Hello Jan,

I had a look in "High Blantyre Auld Kirk and Graveyard" published by the Lanarkshire family History Society.

Sadly, there are no entries for either Nairn nor Robertson.

Hope this helps in some way.

Justin
Title: Re: Monumental inscriptions, Blantyre, Look up please
Post by: Rustor on Tuesday 15 May 07 23:12 BST (UK)
Thank you for your reply Justin.
Perhaps you could tell me if there are other cemeteries in Blantyre to search?
If they were paupers did that mean they may not have had a gravestone?
Thank you again :)
regards Jan
Title: Re: Monumental inscriptions, Blantyre, Look up please
Post by: JustinL on Wednesday 16 May 07 07:13 BST (UK)
Hello Jan,

There were certainly no other books of MIs for Blantyre. I shall ask the next time I go to the library.

I would guess that a gravestone would have been quite an expense. "Paupers' grave" is certainly a common enough term. Perhaps you should address that question to the general Scotland forum.

I'll be in touch. Justin

Title: Re: Monumental inscriptions, Blantyre, Look up please
Post by: JustinL on Wednesday 16 May 07 07:16 BST (UK)
PS

Have you tried the

http://www.lanarkshirefhs.org.uk/

They have their own forum.
Title: Re: Monumental inscriptions, Blantyre, Look up please
Post by: Rustor on Wednesday 16 May 07 12:37 BST (UK)
Thank you for the lead
Jan
Title: Re: Monumental inscriptions, Blantyre, Look up please
Post by: mocam1 on Wednesday 02 January 08 18:33 GMT (UK)
I you contact the registrars office in John St in Blantyre and give them name and date of death they will be able to give you the ifo you need as long as they were buried in either blantyre Hamiton or Cambuslang the will supply you with lair numbers and also who are all in the lair the staff there are very helpfull indead this is how I got a lot of my info of cemetary records
Regards Morag
Title: Re: Monumental inscriptions, Blantyre, Look up please
Post by: Janet Mc on Thursday 08 August 13 12:56 BST (UK)
Looking for a Robert CRAIG on about 18 May 1826 - maybe his wife Mary Hamilton is there too.
Are there any other family members?
Thanks for help
Chris
Title: Re: Monumental inscriptions, Blantyre, Look up please
Post by: Janet Mc on Wednesday 19 March 14 09:48 GMT (UK)
Still hoping for a Blantyre lookup for Robert CRAIG about 26 May 1826.

Also for his wife, Mary HAMILTON - anytime after that.

The Craig family should also be there - William for 1879; Archibald and Alexander after 1879; Peter about 1876 and James between 1872-76.

Their parents James Craig and Elizabeth (Beatrix/Betty) Alexander should be there too. I think James is an 1851 death.

Thanks for any help.
Title: Re: Monumental inscriptions, Blantyre, Look up please
Post by: Janet Mc on Friday 05 December 14 06:41 GMT (UK)
Still hoping for a Blantyre lookup for Robert CRAIG about 26 May 1826.

Also for his wife, Mary HAMILTON - anytime after that.

The Craig family should also be there - William for 1879; Archibald and Alexander after 1879; Peter about 1876 and James between 1872-76.

Their parents James Craig and Elizabeth (Beatrix/Betty) Alexander should be there too. I think James is an 1851 death.

Thanks for any help.